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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

however no sdb or sdb1 are created in /dev. If I enable generic SCSI device handling a /dev/sg0 will be attached to the raid card but then I can't partition or make a filesystem on that dynamic link. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Give us a "cat /proc/partitions" and let's see of slackware sees any disks at all on the system. If it does then you will know what to run cfdisk on, format and blah, blah, blah. cat /proc/partitions sees all of my disks whether I have formatted them or not. Usually I try doing it this way if I have a windows disk that has failed and XP or 2000 will not read it, linux usually will.

BTW - kudos on the 3Ware card, I used to use those at the ISP I worked for.

This is very confusing for me since sdb is listed. Where's the foul up, udev definitions?? I haven't been lost like this for a while. What would you reccomend for a path forward?? Thanx again for you assistance.

-Tomaczar

P.S. Did the research and the 3ware was the only way to go. I hate spending money but I hate spending money on technology that's outdated 6 months later even more. With computers it's better to save up and buy quality (IMHO).

Holy Handgrenades it works!! Many thanks to richcoosa19 for proving to me that the OS saw the array properly which left me to hunt down the udev scenario. NOTED: I don't know why udev doesn't like my array, however after running the mknod script I found on the net:

My /dev/sdb was properly created allowing me to cfdisk and mkresierfs like I need.

Also of note, I don't know if after a reboot it'll recognize the partition now that it's been formatted or if I'll have to rerun the mknod script until I can fix the udev rules. The whole reason for the RAID array is to allow me to do video editing for a project that I need to have done by Christmas (YEAH, EXACTLY) so now that I have it working I'll poke it with a stick later.

!NOTE! Just as a quickie benchmark I did a `hdparm -tT /dev/sdb` and these were my results:

Am I being greedy or am I right to expect more from my 3 disk SATA II RAID 5?? Also here's another question, I add another disk of X size, is reiserfs going to be able to handle that or will I need to use a non-journaled filesystem that maybe doesn't keep track of such things??

For an answer on RAID 5 go here: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/...eLevel5-c.html
As for reiserfs, it should handle it just fine. You will need to have raid tools installed I believe though. I believe the command you need to run is raidhotadd and some arguments. Just google it, google is your friend!